Hey everyone — I’m a final-year student, and I’ve been wondering this a lot lately. We always hear that “you need a good project to land a job”, but most students I know either copy from GitHub, get stuck, or just… give up. We’re doing a small open survey to understand this from both sides — students and educators. If you’ve ever: Built or struggled with a final-year project
Helped someone else do it (educator/mentor)
Wanted to sell or learn from real-world projects
We’d love to hear your honest experience. 🙏 It’s just 2–3 mins, totally anonymous. 📄 Survey Link – for students & educators
We’ll be using the insights to create open resources and maybe a system that actually helps. Thanks in advance if you participate — or drop a comment about your experience.
Kinda sad that selecting “Other” on being a studen/educator precludes you from leaving any useful comments, as a recent graduate (but technically no longer a student) I still have some strong opinions on the subject, even if my response should probably be otherwise filtered out. Oh well.
But it’s what others said - creating a real-world application that could be safely exposed to the internet is something that takes years of real-world experience which most professors don’t have. You can get a handle on creating pieces of the puzzle in Uni, but probably not the whole thing.